Installation method 2

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Nothing from the whole thread?!?

What about:

You are asking for help which is fine, that’s why we are here for: to help and learn from eachother.
I, and @boheme61, have come up with ideas but you keep on being incomplete in your answers and that makes it even more difficult to help you…

the point is that I am not familiary with Debian now.
I did solved the whole problem by installing HomeAssistant inside the Oracle VM Virtual Box. Now at power up I must launch the VM and from there I have to activate HA. It is working well from the internal SATA new SSD.
NOW: following a power interruption the miniPC starts correctly since the BIOS has been correctly instructed , but I do have to manually launch VM and manually activate HA. I am searching how to make HA restarting automatically after power interruption. Thanks everybody for the assistance.
Regards.

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howto launch oracle vm and start a vm at windows startup

Paste above in google search, not sure whether you get what i get, but Use Method 1 ( Using Windows Task Scheduler )

For your device to automatically start after power loss, you have to see if it’s possible in the BIOS of your Device

Running HA in VirtualBox on top of Windows can be a solution.
That is: IF you need that Windows for other stuff.
The downside if you don’t need Windows:

  • you waste resources by everything between HW en HA
  • Windows updates need reboots
  • …
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Actually i don’t use my laptop for other than the VMWare HA install ( And storage for files related to HA, i even have The IP of the Windows-install blocked in my Router(Firewall) to insure there is NO traffic on that, so That Microsoft don’t decide to “Reboot” my Device, which they actually do now and then !

Also this windows-install is stripped from all “redundant” apps and services ( Which there are Lots Of ! in windows, polling network and internet etc. etc.
You can reduce the “IDLE” state by 50%, and the by windows allocated Memory with 50% as well